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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why <config.h> and not "config.h" ?
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:26:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzkxabc1n.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y6cwz6bq.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:30:17 +0900")

> I think this was discussed recently, and I seem to recall that the
> reason given was that "config.h" doesn't work if the user tries to build
> with an out-of-tree object directory _after_ having previously built in
> the source tree (without an intervening "make distclean" in the source
> dir).

Actually, I'd be happy to have a recipe to reproduce the problem.
This way we can fix it in the Makefile, so that the choice between the
two becomes "irrelevant", rather than being based on "avoid a poorly
understood problem in some rare corner case".


        Stefan



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-29 14:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-28  2:23 Why <config.h> and not "config.h" ? Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-28  2:30 ` Miles Bader
2010-07-28  3:25   ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-28  6:30     ` Jan Djärv
2010-07-28  6:46       ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-28  7:06         ` Jan Djärv
2010-07-28  7:35           ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-28  7:57             ` Jan Djärv
2010-07-28  8:04               ` immanuel litzroth
2010-07-28  8:19                 ` Jan Djärv
2010-07-28  9:38               ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-28 10:07               ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-28  8:29         ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-28  8:59           ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-29 14:26   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-07-30  9:21     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-07-30  9:55       ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-01  9:31         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-07-28  7:06 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-07-28  7:10   ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-28  7:15 ` Yavor Doganov
2010-07-28  7:46   ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-28 19:50 ` Dan Nicolaescu

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